SAN DIEGO, June 7, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Viking Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:VKSY), a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance laparoscopic vision systems for use in minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures, announced that for the first time worldwide, the Company's 3Di Vision System had been used to perform videothoracoscopic surgery. The three procedures, performed with the 3D visualization technology at the Regional Oncologic Hospital (C.R.O.B) in Rionero in Vulture, PZ, Italy by Dr. Cosimo Lequaglie, were a parietal pleurectomy, a sublobar resection, and a chemical pleurodesis. Each surgery was finished successfully and met with positive reactions from the surgeon and the hospital staff.
